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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapters 21-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writing on the submarine does Karl Selig make out as the iceberg crumbles in the Prologue of the novel?
(a) U-977 SS Kreigsmarine.
(b) SM U-101 SS Handelskrieg.
(c) U-1062 SS Germaniawerft.
(d) UB-115 SS Kaiserliche Marine.

2. What does Harto say “is the future” in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 39?
(a) “Fishing.”
(b) “Gambling.”
(c) “Entertainment.”
(d) “Politics.”

3. Dr. Kate Warner tells David Vale in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 22 that the human race is about 200,000 years old, but that “we’ve only been so-called behaviorally modern humans” for how many years?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 16,000.
(d) 10,000.

4. What is the name of the eight-year-old autistic child that has just completed the puzzle Dr. Warner’s team has designed to identify savants in the opening of Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 3?
(a) Adi.
(b) Milo.
(c) Uri.
(d) Surya.

5. Where does the narrator say Karl Selig and his team had set out to sea five weeks ago in the novel’s Prologue?
(a) Cape Town, South Africa.
(b) New Delhi, India.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Jakarta, Indonesia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Immari soldier named Cole Bryant tell David Vale he’s from in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 33?

2. What is the name of Dr. Kate Warner’s adoptive father who encouraged her to go abroad to continue her research?

3. David Vale tells Josh Cohen in Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 12 that of the 240 attendees at the conference, how many “never made it home”?

4. Part I: "Jakarta Burning," Chapter 21 opens in what location?

5. According to the narrator in the novel’s Prologue, the Nazis sent expeditions to Antarctica in what years?

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